289 Quotes by Tony Evans

It is in following Christ as our captain that we can win in our personal lives, families, churches, and communities.

Football is oneness in action. When played well, it is unity on display. Players come from different races and different backgrounds. However, when they get on the field, they harmonize their differences toward a common goal.

Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.

The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil.

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.

We should love people, care about people regardless of where they come from.

In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.